Quartez Harris

Nov 7, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Cheryl Hudson |Traci N. Todd |Kwame Alexander |Quartez Harris

Alasdair Beckett-King, illus. by Claire Powell. Candlewick, $18.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-5362-4166-2; $9.99 paper ISBN 978-1-5362-4167-9By donning a raincoat, beret, and bristly fake mustache, and affecting a nebulous accent, 10-year-old Bonnie Montgomery assumes her alter ego: the gentleman detective Montgomery Bonbon. While touring Widdlington’s Hornville Museum with her grandfather, a security guard is murdered within a locked turret room.